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MONSTER CABLE PRODUCTS, INC.
Web Site Privacy Statement
Effective Date: Oct 07, 2004

Monster Cable Products, Inc. and its corporate affiliates ("Monster" or "we") provide this Web Site Privacy Statement in order to demonstrate our commitment to respect your privacy. This Web Site Privacy Statement explains how we collect certain personal information at our Web Site at www.monstercable.com and any permutations thereof that directly link to this Website Privacy Statement ("Web Site"). This Web Site Privacy Statement also explains how we use and disclose such information - it does not, however, apply to our use of data that we collect otherwise (e.g., offline or through web sites of our foreign subsidiaries). If you do not agree with this Web Site Privacy Statement, please do not access or use our Web Site.

Personal and Non-Personal Information
Generally, you can visit Monster on the Web without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. We collect no such information about you when you visit our Web Site unless you choose to provide that information to us. Monster may request or collect certain personally identifiable information from or about you ("Personal Information") in certain circumstances, as described in this Web Site Privacy Statement and in specific privacy notices (described at the end of this Web Site Privacy Statement under the header "Situations in Which you Submit Personal Information").

Log Files and Aggregate Information
Like most website operators, we collect and use IP addresses from browsing machines to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Monster does not link this information with Personal Information about individual users. We may share with potential partners our aggregated demographic information and aggregated information about the transactions conducted on our Web Site. Information we share for these purposes is generally not linked to any Personal Information that can identify any individual person or company.

Use of Cookies
Our Web Site uses cookies to enhance your experience while visiting our sites. Cookies are pieces of information transferred to the browsing computer and used for record-keeping purposes. Cookies generally assist users by performing certain functions such as saving passwords and personal preferences regarding the sites. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard.

Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. If you would prefer not to receive cookies, however, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our sites will not function properly when you view them.

Links
Our Web Site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Monster is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites, and this Web Site Privacy Statement does not apply to such sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security
Monster endeavors to take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the security of our users' Personal Information. We do not, however, warrant or represent that your Personal Information is completely safe from hackers and other security threats. If you have questions about the security of this Web Site, please send an email to webmaster@monstercable.com.

Changes to this Web Site Privacy Statement
If we decide to change this Web Site Privacy Statement - which we reserve the right to do, at any time, effective immediately - we will post the revised policy at this location, or at another location that is accessible via link from our homepage, so that users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it, on any given day. If at any point we decide to use Personal Information in a manner that is substantially different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will seek to notify users by way of an email, and provide users with a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.

Obtain and Modify Information
We intend to protect the quality and integrity of your Personal Information and try to keep information accurate and complete. Please contact us at webmaster@monstercable.com to find out if and what Personal Information we may have related to you. Also, if any of your Personal Information changes (such as zip code, phone, email or postal address), please let us know at webmaster@monstercable.com.

Unsubscribe
If you do not wish to receive future communications from us, you can send an e-mail to webmaster@monstercable.com with the subject stating "UNSUBSCRIBE."

Transfer of Personal Information
Monster will generally not transfer Personal Information to third parties except as disclosed in this Web Site Privacy Statement or in specific privacy notices (described at the end of this Web Site Privacy Statement under the header "Situations in Which You Submit Personal Information").

We generally reserve the right, however, to transfer any non-personal information without restrictions and to transfer Personal Information in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, and/or sale of all or substantially all of our assets. Also, we may use or disclose Personal Information as required or permitted by law and/or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with a legal requirement, a court order, request by law enforcement officials, or other legal process, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others or ourselves. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful.

We also share Personal Information within the Monster group and affiliated companies.

In addition, we may need to transfer Personal Information to third parties who perform services on our behalf in your interest. For example, we may release personal information to third parties to fulfill customer orders, send Monster marketing communications, deliver packages, fulfill subscriptions, schedule and perform installation and servicing, conduct research or surveys, send regular mail and e-mail on behalf of Monster, or to process credit card payments.

Situations in Which You Submit Personal Information
In certain situations, we will ask you to submit Personal Information. For example, in order to register your Monster product, you will be asked to complete a product registration form, which will require you to submit Personal Information such as your name, address, e-mail address, and to indicate which Monster products you own, where you purchased these products and what the UCP number is. In addition, we ask you to answer questions on how you heard about Monster products, what your favorite type of music is, whether the Monster product you are registering was a purchase or a gift, whether you bought it with a new system or component, what the purchase price was, how you describe your experience when purchasing the product, how often you have purchased Monster products, how you would describe Monster's contribution to your system, what audio, video or music magazines you read, what the value of your entire audio/video system is, what its components are, whether you have bought any A/V components or cables online and from which sites, whether you plan to purchase A/V components in the next year, what your age and gender is, what color you would choose for your speaker cable, whether you have any suggestions for Monster products improvements, and other questions hat will assist us in developing products for you. If you would like to register for our newsletter, we may ask you to submit a contact form with your name, address and e-mail address. In order to deliver additional information that you request about our products or services, we may ask you to submit a customer service form with your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, the Monster product you own, the topic of your request and your comments. You can also e-mail us your comments or a review about Monster products. You can apply for a position with us by submitting your resume.

In order to receive the iCruze Direct Mail $50 Promotion, you will be asked to submit Personal Information such as your name, email address, mailing address, phone number and your experience and opinions (“Your Statement”). Monster will keep this information in its database and will contact you by email. Monster may also share your Personal Information and Your Statement with potential partners who may contact you as well.

In order to win the Monster Holiday Sweepstakes, you will be asked to submit your name, mailing address and e-mail address. This information will be used to contact if you win, or if you choose to subscribe to the Monster Wired newsletters. Monster will keep this information in its database and may contact you by email. This information shall only be used as a part of aggregate data (described at the beginning of this Web Site Privacy Statement under the header “Log Files and Aggregate Information”).

In order send your comments and reviews of Monster products to Monster, you will be asked to submit Personal Information using the Monster Speakup Testimonials form, such as your name, address, phone number, occupation/profession, e-mail address and your comments and opinions (Your Statement"). Monster will keep this information in its database and may contact you by the means you've provided to Monster. In addition, Monster may post your name, profession and Your Statement on our website or use your name, profession and Your Statement in marketing materials at Monster's sole discretion. Monster may also share your name, profession and Your Statement with potential partners who may also use your name, profession and Your Statement in marketing materials.

We will transfer this Personal Information only as described under the header "Transfer of Personal Information."

Whenever our data processing practices with regard to Personal Information that you actively submit to us are substantially different from those described in this Website Privacy Statement, we will add special privacy notices to those segments of our Web Site where we prompt you to submit Personal Information, e.g., in connection with contests or special promotions.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at webmaster@monstercable.com.





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